Bresaola della Valtellina PGI is looking at exports outside the EU

After the calm experienced during 2023, the Valtellina bresaola protection consortium it repeated the mark of the first two months of 2024 with a clear recovery. In front of production and consumer value of bresaola della Valtellina PGI decreasing in 2023 compared to 2022 by -3.45% and -8.28% respectively, the first two months of 2024 recorded growth compared to the same period last year double digits which gives hope to the 15 certified companies belonging to the Consortium.

“Since the second half of 2023 we have witnessed a progressive recovery in consumption which this year is taking on a continuously positive character – he comments Mario Francesco Moropresident of the Valtellina Bresaola Protection Consortium – The image of our product, moreover, remains high both by virtue of its nutritional values ​​and because it is synonymous with an all-Italian tradition and ‘know-how’”.

Exports – equal to 603 tonnes in 2023, equivalent to 5.09% of production, slightly growing compared to 2022 – are the prerogative of 73% of the EU area (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany , Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Hungary) and 27% in non-EU countries (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates , Kuwait, Qatar, Hong Kong, Kenya, Lebanon, Norway, Canada, United Kingdom, Serbia, Switzerland).

“The feedback obtained was excellent Middle East and in all countries of Islamic religion – specifies Moro – Being produced with beef, in fact, bresaola knows no religious barriers”. Finally, at a distribution level, large-scale retail trade (GDO) confirms itself as the main sales channel for certified bresaola (83% of total production).